Let us exercise the freedoms we have, stretch those freedom muscles and walk into stores and restaurants without a mask, be kind to people if they offer a mask and keep pushing gently against the tyranny. By Jody Meacham . Lunchtime traffic has dried up with most people working from home, and hes lost months of business at SAP Center, where he had a stand, with that facility shut down since March. Santa Clara County moves to shut down all 49ers activities for three-week minimum By Chris Biderman. January 30, 2023 President Biden announces that the national emergency and public health emergency for COVID-19 will end on May 11.. After losing $2 million a month during the earlier shutdown and facing potential permanent closure, the zoo reopened in July. THE PRIVATE SECTOR CANNOT FIX THE PROBLEM IF COVID IS STILL A DANGER TO JUST 1 CITIZEN UNDER THE CALIFORNIA AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. latest stories and videos about the coronavirus here. Except for the fact that the ICU beds will be long gone. That upset some parents and lawmakers who argued playgrounds are some kids' only opportunity to play outside and burn off steam, especially in urban settings. Following the county's lead, San Jose announced this week it will impose a similar requirement. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group). A growing number of hospitals are cancelling or postponing certain surgeries. Yes, retail stores can stay open at a reduced 20% capacity. BUT the region has only Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County, San Francisco County, Marin County, Contra Costa County and Alameda County, which has a total of 273 open ICU beds at this time. While critics have blamed Bay Area health officials for being too aggressive over the course of the pandemic, many health experts say they have taken the right measures at the right time to slow the spread of the virus. Whats next for the former Frys HQ in San Jose? Still, restaurant owners reacted with alarm to the quicker timeline for closing on-site dining. I have no words, really.". More than 800 of 12,200 Los Angeles Police Department employees are out sick this week, and COVID-positive officers tend to be gone for an average of 24 days, Chief Michel Moore said. Gavin Newsom and Dr. Mark Ghaly, the states top health official, have repeatedly stressed that California doesnt foresee further COVID-related shutdowns, theyre happening anyway as more people enter quarantine raising questions about how long the state will be able to keep overburdened and understaffed schools, health care facilities and businesses open if the omicron wave doesnt peak soon. This time, at. More degenerate leftist politics, even to extreme, woke included, levels remain a sound bet. More by Emily Hoeven, Long lines of people wait for more than two hours for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2022. Elia Torres, on the other hand, said when she closes her downtown Menlo Park hair salon again, it likely will be for the last time. The state requires the stay-at-home order to last at least three weeks. Subscribe to CalMatters newslettershere. Receive a free briefing on your state every day. Now given that there are 1,928,000 people in Santa Clara County some would argue that 68,181 is nothing to be concerned about. By the Daily Post staff (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group), PLEASANTON, CA - Dec. 3: Isabella Montufar and Alex Azila, both of Fremont, have a meal at Oyo restaurant's newly built outdoor dining area in Pleasanton, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Hayward Unified on Monday moved online for at least a week after more than 500 students tested positive and teachers were absent from more than half of classrooms. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO GO? This is your newsroom. And the state may help cover some employers costs: In the absence of new federal funding to assist small businesses with COVID sick leave requirements, I support augmenting the governors budget to add state funding for this purpose, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said. As of Monday, Santa Clara County ranked second among the 10 Bay Area counties. However, business owners say there's no preparing for the unknown. Helen Nguyen only recently received approval from the city of Cupertino after a month of bureaucratic tussles to put up a tent to seat 12 diners outside her Pho Ha Noi restaurant. "We're going to need everybody's help," said Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez. See the full guidelines here. Earlier in her career she wrote about education for The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA degree in political science with a minor in communication. // NBC News, Crows everywhere, and Sunnyvales going to do something about it. At Santana Row, the Left Bank family of restaurants, which includes traditional sit-down favorite Meso Mediterranean, isn't just relying on in-person dining. Rodney Baca of The Shop by Chef Baca said another lockdown would be the latest in a series of blows to his eatery at the San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose, where most customers take their food outside to the large courtyard. How safe is your neighborhood? Hospital beds statewide filled to their highest point of the pandemic, with 8,831 patients currently hospitalized, including 2,066 of them in intensive care. Meanwhile, students and teachers in both Oakland and San Francisco Unified are threatening sickouts, saying they wont show up to school without heightened health and safety protocols. ", The county release also stated, "We wanted to share this information with businesses and residents as soon as possible.". Last week, a coalition of bars and restaurants in San Francisco started requiring proof of vaccinationto enter, and some establishments in San Jose are following suit. With rain and colder temperatures on the way, many restaurant owners throughout the region are trying to decide if it'll be worth it to operate outside. San Jos Spotlight is a project of the San Jos News Bureau, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization | Tax ID: 82-5355128. "But there's a difference between infection and disease.". We were recovering. Dont mix even with a small group, Berkeley Public Health Officer Dr. Lisa B. Hernandez said. 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The Bay Area orders dont alter the rules Newsom announced Thursday, said Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody. Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Tracking the drought: Map shows conditions across SF Bay Area, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7. Just understand this fact if it stays the same for 30 days here is the real problem, the new cases in Santa Clara county will be 30 times (13,328/7) or 56,734 cases. California has administered 66,518,035 vaccine doses, and 71.8% of eligible Californians are fully vaccinated. Health | SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- In the South Bay, there's more sobering news as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. Santa Clara County health officials did not respond to inquiries about the potential for another shutdown. ", INTERACTIVE MAP: Here's what's open, closed in the San Francisco Bay Area. "One minute you can open, one minute you can't. The breaking news update regarding orders to close was received shortly after 4:30 p.m. "What is this going to be another 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 months," Neal Maddox, owner of X-treme Athletics asked ABC7 News. Eliminating sit-down service likely will force some restaurants into temporary hibernation, while others close permanently, according to Laurie Thomas, executive director of San Franciscos Golden Gate Restaurant Association, which represents hundreds of restaurants in the city. If youre going to get the public health benefit, you have to do it now.. According to data released by the county Wednesday, the case rate per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated in Santa Clara County is nearly four times higher than the rate among those who are fully vaccinated. Santa Clara County on Monday backed off from a booster mandate for health care workers at the request of already strained hospitals. On the day that gyms, hair-and-nail salons and churches were allowed to reopen, Santa Clara county officials said Monday that they will likely be ordered to shut down again in two days. The region has to abide by stay-at-home restrictions once ICU capacity in the region drops below 15%. Gov. Things were going well, said Erin Harrison, the zoos vice president of marketing. I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE FIRST THING THAT CONGRESS WILL START WORKNG ON IS ANOTHER BIG RELIEF PACKAGE. STOP MAKING UP STORIES WHERE THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF IS INDICATING YOU ARE WRONG!!! (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 2: Visitors take photos at the Blue Planet which is part of the new exhibit Glowfari at Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2020. He graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in print/digital reporting and a minor in political science and German. CalMatters is also trackingcoronavirus hospitalizations by county. Get your trump vaccine you b****made libs lmfao. I the last 3 months we lost nearly 200 people. Churches and other places of worship can only host outdoor services. Almost all non-essential businesses are forced to shut down, with an exception for retail stores. All Rights Reserved. CalMatters is now available in Spanish onTwitter,FacebookandRSS. Newsom says he shouldn't have attended birthday party at French Laundry amid COVID-19 surge, "People still want normalcy in their lives," said Serena Harkey, wine director for Vine Hospitality, which owns and operates the Left Bank restaurants in three Bay Area counties. Get San Jos Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox. They include: 2. Yep start it up again spotlight leave it to these guys Sick of this crap Shut off the news!! SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- On the same day gyms, and nail and hair salons were able to reopen to customers across Santa Clara County, those small business owners got the news, they'd once again have to close. while lawmakers leaders did what the wanted This what they want more fear more scare this county you are 95 % protected vaccinated thats whats doctors say .. the variant is the media ..panic want you afraid .Spot light needed to focus on the Fricken escalating crime in this Sammy Jose. | All donations are tax-deductible. Economy | Now, some arent sure theyll survive another closure. So will zoos and museums. Health experts and officials are still confident in the effectiveness of the vaccine at preventing serious illness, hospitalizations and deaths. // Mercury News, Environmentalists sue Point Reyes National Seashore over cattle ranches. "If they don't ever let me be a personal trainer and coach people- this is what I love. Omicron surge could hit some parts of California much harder than On Friday, the state listed the intensive-care availability in the Bay Area region at 25.3%. CalMatters is a nonprofit newsroom and your tax-deductible donations help us keep bringing you and every Californian essential, nonpartisan information. "I don't see that at all happening," Fauci told ABC on Sunday, but the chief medical advisor to the presidentalso warned that outbreaks will continue if people don't get vaccinated. John Woolfolk is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based at The Mercury News. more laws that sound like they help, but only help the rich get richer and the poor more ghetoized and futureless and the borderline homeless, there is nothing to be done as you vote for the worst possible people who lack capacity for abstract thought and unbias analysis. At a press conference on Friday, health officers from the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and the city of Berkeley (which has its own health department). This is a busy time, so when we close its going to be very bad for us.. Instead, the new orders allow retail shops to continue indoor operations at 20% capacity. Now, Nguyen's bracing as Santa Clara County shuts down outdoor dining Sunday night. BUT NEVER CONTINUED TO CREATE THE PRODUCTION GRADE VERSIONS. Here's what you need to know, Updated number of COVID-19 deaths, cases in Bay Area, Map shows everywhere you can get a COVID-19 test in the Bay Area, COVID-19 Diaries: Personal stories of Bay Area residents during pandemic, California EDD: The most commonly asked questions we get about unemployment and PUA, Health experts urge flu shots in effort to avoid 'twindemic', How to tell the difference between seasonal allergies and coronavirus symptoms, Here's which mask is better to protect from COVID-19, First COVID-19 vaccine volunteers in US describe experience as Bay Area launches vaccine trials. Some counties are choosing to shut down for longer than that. "Workers manufacturing or providing parts and equipment that enable the maintenance and continued operation of essential businesses and facilities are considered essential," the California Department of Public Health told ABC7 News. After that, the sports allowed will be based on your county's tier. The project proposed by Santa Clara County and the nonprofit LifeMoves would bring a complex of 80 to 120 housing units with individual bathrooms to county-owned land at the corner of Benton . Newsom's announcement means for every Bay Area county, According to a release by the Public Health Department: "The State confirmed this afternoon that it will require sectors closed for indoor operations in counties on the monitoring list to close in Santa Clara County effective Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 12:01 a.m.". A full list of essential work can be found here. Opinion: Newsoms budget cuts threaten public health investment In laboratory experiments, they found that three mutations in Lambdas spike protein, known as RSYLTPGD246-253N, 260 L452Q and F490S, help it resist neutralization by vaccine-induced antibodies. Emily was a USC Center for Health Journalism fellow in 2021 and a Renaissance Journalism Equity Reporting Project fellow in 2014. Housing proposal for unhoused leaves Santa Clara residents sharply divided It's just like back and forth, back and forth. Follow CalMatters onFacebookandTwitter. Santa Clara County is locking down again. What will it take to get a COVID-19 vaccine and how will it be made? THE VACCINES ARE GOING TO BECOME USELESS AND THE POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSES CAN DO NOTING ABOUT IT. She previously covered startups and venture capital for the Bay Area News Group and prior to that court cases for The Recorder in San Francisco. As of 01/08/2022 there was 13,909 cases total NEW CASES for the week starting 01/01/2022 (BUT THE DATA WAS MISSING REGARDING JAN 7) all variants in Santa Clara County AND there are only 30 ICU beds out of 3800 (4 beds less than yesterday) . In the state since January 1, there has been a total of 703 deaths, and if you average out them and multiply by 21 you should get an expected 1,476 deaths to come to a total of 2,179 deaths at the end of January at this time. He also has worked as an editor since 2013. You know, you can open tomorrow, but then by the end of the day, you might have to close again," Do said. // Sacramento Bee, How Newsoms proposed budget could help ports shore up supply chain, reduce pollution. THE FACT THAT CALIFORNIA HAS AN UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM THAT 20% OF ALL U.S. News Releases . Emailemily@calmatters.org. List: Where can I get tested for COVID-19 in the Bay Area? By. Tips, insight or feedback? Santa Clara shuts down sports again - Deadspin He is a Venezuelan-American raised in Texas with bylines in the Champaign, Ill. News-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Dallas Morning News. Now, 48-hours after a four-month shut down, Maddox is still trying to make sense of it all. // Alta Online, Endangered salmon are appearing in Marin where they havent been in years. This week, Santa Clara County and seven other Bay Areagovernmentsissued new rulesrequiring residents to mask up indoors in public places regardless of vaccination status. COVID-19 has put many on an emotional and financial roller coaster that no one was prepared for. The Oakland Zoo is worried too. California shutdown: COVID forces state to the edge- CalMatters Coronavirus: New Bay Area COVID lockdown announced - East Bay Times "We're not heading toward a lockdown," Jean-Pierre said. "Something like what New York City is doing, where people are required to provide proof of vaccination.". In March, the region adopted a first-in-the-country lockdown that came days before Newsom announced his statewide stay-home order, also a national first in the pandemic. The area got a brief break from severe weather on Sunday but . (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group), CUPERTINO, CA - DEC. 4: Restaurant owner Helen Nyugen watches as Jacquelin Kieu adds decorative lights to the outdoor dining tent at Pho Ha Noi restaurant in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Just because someone went to in n out instead of working out or is to stupid to move to a more affordable place not my problem tired of caring. The county hasnt seen thatnumber of new daily infectionssince February, data shows. Malls can also stay open at 20% capacity. As a result, indoor dining will be suspended on the same day. 12/14/2022. As of 01/07/2022 there was 15,909 cases total NEW CASES for the week starting 12/31/2021 (2,000 more cases than yesterday) all variants in Santa Clara County AND there are only 30 ICU beds out of 3800 (4 beds less than yesterday) . Offices (outside of critical infrastructure) should only do remote work wherever possible. The state is split into five regions: Northern California, Greater Sacramento, Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. THE VIRUS MUTATES, AND WE CANT KEEP UP. The situation is similarly dire in other workplaces. In Santa Clara County, 78.5% of eligible residents, or 1.3 million people, are fully vaccinated. This time, at. Track progress on 6 key metrics to reopening here, Reopening California: What's opening and when in the Bay Area, Everything we know about CA businesses opening and what comes next, Life after COVID-19: Here's what restaurants, gyms will look like, Here's everything allowed to open in CA (and what we're still waiting on).